The Hot Country Knights release their new album, The K is Silent, today (Friday, May 1st). The 90s throwback band fronted by Douglas (“Doug”) Douglason, AKA Dierks Bentley, recorded 10 songs for the project, which includes duets with Terri Clark and Travis Tritt.
Doug Douglason tells us that against his better judgement, the label sort of chose the album's title: “The album was supposed to be called Doug Douglason is the Greatest Lead Singer of All Time of the Greatest Band Ever, The Hot Country Knights. The record label thought it was too long of a title, and they want the easy title, but what makes total sense which is The K is Silent; Hot Country Knights The K is Silent. It wasn’t my choice. If it was me, I would’ve named the album after myself, because I am the most important member of the band Hot Country Knights, but that’s part of the music business here in Nashville, Tennessee, a lot of stuff that goes on on Music Row, record labels get to have a big piece of your art, so the album is called The K is Silent.”
Dierks Bentley co-wrote all of the songs on the album in addition to producing the project.
Hot Country Knights will celebrate the release of their album on Facebook and Youtube today at 4 p.m. ET.